***LP 9 & 10***

I really liked ready chapters 9 and 10, because I'm 19 so my adolescence I can remember well.

Teenage sleep from NPR- I found this interesting because of my own sleeping habbits. I had no idea that our internal clocks shifts to a later sleep time. I have heard not only in this interview and other places that a person should go to bed and wake up at the same time every day. After I thought about it this makes a lot of sense. If I think back to when I was little I had a bed time and I usually got up early and had lots of energy. Now that I am older and go to sleep when ever and can get up usually when ever, I feel tired all the time. I feel it has gotten worse since I started college because I don't have classes everyday and they don't always start at the same time so my sleeping schedule is all over the place. The doctor in the interview also said to take out T.V. and computers from the bedroom, which isn't the first time I heard this either, and is also part of my problem because I sleep with my T.V. on. I did think she had some good ideas on how to make you feel more awake and sleep better. I thought the idea of listening to soothing music sounds like a good alternative to the T.V. I also thought the visor that gives you more light to wake you up was a cool idea.

The Secret Lives of Boys from NPR- Wow what a cool interview. Considering I am a female I thought it was good to get a some what inside perspective of the male mind. What I thought was good was that it showed that no matter if your a teenage boy or girl you have a lot of the same feelings and problems. I can really relate to the part at the beginning of the interview when Saval said the boys said "Nobody gets me. No one is listening. I'm all by my self." I think as a early adolescent and even now I still feel that way often. I think a good example of this is the boy who got put on Prozac after he came out as being gay. To me it sounds like no one was really understanding what he was saying because they said he was "acting out", when no he wasn't he was just gay. Another interesting point that was made was that a lot of teens are accepting of themselves and it is the adults that aren't accepting of the teens. Now what kind of message does that send a teen? I think being a teen is emotionally hard enough without having the adults around you not being ok with who you are. Well there are so many things I could still talk about in this interview, but I am hoping that people reading this book come to realize that boys are emotional, care about their looks, etc just like girls and that it is totally OK.

Ch 9

In chapter 9 there was a good review of info about puberty. I also was suprised at how high adolesecnt pregnacy is in the U.S. I think the media doesn't help this either. I think it is good that there are programs like Girls Inc. for mothers and daughters to go to to learn about how to prevent adolescent pregnancy. As far as the leading causes of death for adolscence (accidents, homicide, suicide) I wasn't supprised that accidents is the leading cause of death considering many teenagers are usually reckless at one time or another.

Ch 10

I thought the part about dilinquency was interesting. I thought Erikson made a good point that some teens do delinquent behavior to get attention, even though it is negative attention. I was watching Dr Phil last night and they had 2 teens on who both were dilinquents. After they talked the boys said that they did because they wanted attention etc.